GOVERNOR LARRABEE'S TEMPERANCE PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF IOWA,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.}
To whom these presents may come—Greeting.
WHEREAS, The people of this State at a non-partisan election, held on the twenty-seventh day of June, A. D. 1882, expressed themselves in favor of prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage; and,
WHEREAS, The Twenty-first General Assembly amended the law to secure universal enforcement; and
WHEREAS, A very large number of persons are petitioning for pardons and remissions of fine for offenses committed under such law;
Now, therefore, I, William Larrabee, Governor of the State of Iowa, relying with confidence upon the loyalty and true Christian spirit of our people to sustain all measures adopted for the promotion of the general welfare, do, under the pains and penalties of the law, warn all persons engaged in the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors to desist from such unlawful practice, and I do hereby give notice that willful violators will hereafter have no claim to executive clemency. And I call most earnestly upon all good people of the State to aid, to the best of their ability, in the inforcement of the law.
Especially do I call upon all temperance societies, and other bodies organized for kindred purposes, to realize the necessity for new energy in their labors.
Let the priests, ministers teachers and the press use their best efforts to enlist the moral forces of the State in this cause. Let the judges, attorneys and other officers of the courts be painstaking and persistent in enforcing the law, both in letter and in spirit. Let the sheriffs and peace officers be fearless, vigilant, and let the mayors and other municipal officers awaken to new zeal in their efforts to secure its observances.
I exhort all citizens to lay aside partisan differences, and by united and determined efforts banish the dram-shop from Iowa.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of Iowa.
Done at Des Moines, this third of May, A. D. 1886.
WILLIAM LARRABEE.
By the Governor:
FRANK D. JACKSON, Secretary of State,
AN UPRIGHT JUDGE.
The Des Moines (Iowa) Register says: "One of the first decisions affirming the constitutionaltv of the new prohibitory law comes from the ablest Democratic judge in the State, Judge BURTON, of Ottumwa. A test case was recently submitted to him, ask-